Zitat des Tages von Gordon Smith:
Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.
I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.
We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.
As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.
My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.
We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.
A lot of things people see as innovative are faddish and fleeting, and I'm simply telling you, staying power like broadcasting has is more important in the end than the latest app you can download.
The only way to ensure that our promise to provide every opportunity for students with disabilities, and help them achieve their full potential, is to give our schools the dollars they need.
In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.
The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.
When there's an emergency weather situation, the local broadcaster is the source of information that often makes the difference between life and death.
I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.
Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio.
The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged - the elderly and the disadvantaged who can't afford a $200-a-month cable bill.
If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.
Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world.
Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.
For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.
My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'
History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming.